[PDF file]: Between The Waves The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 Tom McTague London: Picador, 2025, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay The ‘revolution’ in the subtitle is the UK’s relationship with the EEC/EU – a huge subject, covered in great detail, in a very big book. Including notes and index, this is 544 (decently-bound) pages. […]
[PDF file]: […] vary enormously but there is no equivalent body of work in English that I can think (and the report will have been published in all the official EEC languages).16 Common Cause Another strand in the de Courcy and ex-IPG member network links it to Common Cause, the nominally anti-Communist group which, like the Economic […]
[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that […]
[PDF file]: […] regard it had for its ‘special relationship’ with the US. This changed – a little – after the Suez debacle. The UK finally applied to join the EEC in 1960 and was rebuffed by a French veto. By the mid-1960s the UK, via Lord Gladwyn, was arguing that it could only join the EEC […]
[PDF file]: […] and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the Conservatives of being the party of increased taxation.2 When the UK voted to stay in EEC in June 1975 the central […]
[PDF file]: […] atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In […]
[PDF file]: […] the manufacturing base after the Thatcher governments had a go at it. This country’s fishing industry was largely wrecked as part of the price of entering the EEC in 1972. The steel industry was ‘rationalised’, and, like coal, was mostly closed in the 1980s. Agriculture is being reduced under ‘set aside’ schemes and another […]
[PDF file]: […] be called the official-unofficial record. Here is an example from the EC membership application chapter. We learn that: ‘The decision to apply for British membership of the EEC was taken at a meeting held in the Prime Minister’s room in the House of Commons at 3pm on Friday 21 July 1961…..A hot Friday afternoon […]
[PDF file]: […] they attracted immense publicity and remained a critical feature of domestic UK political life, breathlessly anticipated each month by the media until the UK’s entry into the EEC in 1973 when regular bulletins about how the Sterling Area was performing became somewhat less important.2 9 The mixture of assertions and assumptions that the Treasury […]
[PDF file]: […] years of Cityoriented economic policies, the UK would be just another middling social democratic society. As it is, compared to – say – the members of the EEC when the UK joined in 1973, we have the worst housing, transport system and roads; the worst health and old age care; the worst education system; […]
